Traditional Muzzleloading Association

Craftsmanship => Accoutrements => Topic started by: Muley on June 23, 2012, 04:33:11 PM

Title: Bear Bag?
Post by: Muley on June 23, 2012, 04:33:11 PM
Were bags ever made from a bear hide with the hair left on the outside of the bag?
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: Rev on June 23, 2012, 04:47:00 PM
I have seen bags with a flap made of hair on bear skin, I don't recall ever seeing the whole bag being hair on bear skin, but then i have not seen even a small percentage of all the bags made. I think the ones I saw were European in origin, Prussian probably...
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: Muley on June 23, 2012, 05:44:15 PM
Won't work for me if it was never done in the era I want, and the location. I thought it would be a different look.
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: pathfinder on June 23, 2012, 10:33:12 PM
The ones I've seen have been from the Bedford Penn. area. I'm sure there were some made,not everything that was made then survived,contrary to what a lot of "expert's"think. I think a grizz bag would be pretty cool in the Rockie's!
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: Longhunter on June 25, 2012, 06:36:51 PM
Mountainman Seth Kinman wore a shooting bag made from a grizzly bear. The flap including the paw with the claws. He also made chairs out of bear and elk skins and horns.

(http://muzzleloadermag.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/ga/ul/8674058408/inlineimg/Y/kinman.jpg)
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: snake eyes on July 01, 2012, 06:36:02 AM
Muley,
         I know what I have is not PC but it always creates discussion
about what is. I have a Bowie knife with a black bear jaw bone for the
handle with a black bear hide(hair on) sheath.Blade on knife SS  :(
John
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: pathfinder on July 01, 2012, 02:48:00 PM
How long ya figger them shoes 'Ole Seth is wearin' in that there Photo would last in the Mountain's?
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: Longhunter on July 01, 2012, 05:22:24 PM
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How long ya figger them shoes 'Ole Seth is wearin' in that there Photo would last in the Mountain's?

Them's his town shoes, he was probably savin his mountain shoes . When I got my first pair of Dyer moccasins in the early 70's I worn the soles off em walkin on the sidewalks in town..
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: pathfinder on July 01, 2012, 08:57:43 PM
Potterville has sidewalk's? Paved?
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: rickevans on July 02, 2012, 08:11:00 AM
..and we're off.
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: Longhunter on July 02, 2012, 08:24:50 AM
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Potterville has sidewalk's? Paved?

a course not..Potterville ain't a town, it's a Village. We got paved streets now but it was all dirt and gravel when I moved here in 64. The town where I was walkin my soles off was  East Lansing, the home of MSU. I was drawn there by the Red Door tobacco shop and Brother Gambets leather shop....I hardly noticed the collage girls... :roll eyes
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: pathfinder on July 02, 2012, 09:14:37 AM
If this wasn't a thread about Bear Bag's,we could go at it with U of M vs MSU joke's!

That is quite a bag and set up he has! Also good to see he has a Southern flair to his rifle gun!
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: Longhunter on July 02, 2012, 10:56:09 AM
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That is quite a bag and set up he has! Also good to see he has a Southern flair to his rifle gun

He called his gun "Ole Cotton Bale". Here's a pretty good writeup on ole Seth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Kinman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Kinman)
Title: Re: Bear Bag?
Post by: sse on July 02, 2012, 11:14:50 AM
Quote from: "Longhunter"
Mountainman Seth Kinman wore a shooting bag made from a grizzly bear. The flap including the paw with the claws. He also made chairs out of bear and elk skins and horns.

(http://muzzleloadermag.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/ga/ul/8674058408/inlineimg/Y/kinman.jpg)

He's got that bear trained pretty well...!